Games like The Anchored Hour
If The Anchored Hour is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids, The King is Watching and Hold The Mine — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About The Anchored Hour: Defend a displaced royal keep in a roguelite tower-defense strategy game. Build, scout, gather resources, and send units down the path to destroy enemy towers, outposts, and bases across unstable timelines as each run escalates.
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Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids
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Top pick for The Anchored Hour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Anchored Hour.
Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids is a medieval fantasy blend of tower defense and roguelike progression. Build defenses on a grid, manage resources, and survive ever-evolving enemies.
The King is Watching
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Second-strongest match for The Anchored Hour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Anchored Hour.
The King is Watching is a roguelite kingdom builder. Rule by the power of your royal gaze! Decide between producing resources, training armies, or balancing both, while adapting to unique events every run
Hold The Mine
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Third-strongest match for The Anchored Hour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with The Anchored Hour.
Explore and defend your mine against waves of monsters in this innovative roguelike survival game! Collect and manage your resources, discover buildings with unique effects and unleash mighty heroes to hold monsters out of the mine until the sun rises.
SlimeHold
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Ranked #4 for The Anchored Hour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Anchored Hour.
Recruit powerful Slimes, discover unique Items, and defend your King in this roguelite tower defense game. Build powerful synergies, survive endless enemy waves, and create a new strategy every run.
Blood Moon: Last Stand
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Ranked #5 for The Anchored Hour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Anchored Hour.
‘Blood Moon: Last Stand’ is an action-strategy game set in Xianxia, blending wave defense, real-time control, and roguelike deck-building. Command up to three cultivators, forge unique builds, and withstand relentless hordes and bosses. Survive seven days to overturn fate.
Tower Command
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Ranked #6 for The Anchored Hour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Anchored Hour.
Strategic tower defense where you need to maximize your bonuses. Create your build, upgrade towers, link them, equip items to create ridiculous combos. Placement is key in this game, you decide the path enemies take to their goal. Explore all maps and unlock towers, commanders, traits and items.
Rail Guard
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Ranked #7 for The Anchored Hour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Anchored Hour.
Expand your railway, automate production, build powerful defenses, and protect your tracks from relentless enemies in this incremental idle tower defense game.
Fio and the Doomed City
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Ranked #8 for The Anchored Hour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Anchored Hour.
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Anchored Hour at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~86% under The Anchored Hour on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Anchored Hour.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~58% under The Anchored Hour on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Anchored Hour.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~48% under The Anchored Hour on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Anchored Hour.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~72% under The Anchored Hour on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Anchored Hour.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~79% under The Anchored Hour on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Anchored Hour.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~58% under The Anchored Hour on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Anchored Hour.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~45% under The Anchored Hour on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Anchored Hour.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~58% under The Anchored Hour on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Anchored Hour.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Anchored Hour.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Anchored Hour.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Anchored Hour.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Anchored Hour.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Anchored Hour.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Anchored Hour.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Anchored Hour.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Frequently asked about The Anchored Hour
- How much does The Anchored Hour cost?
- The Anchored Hour is listed on Steam at 7.19 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Anchored Hour?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Anchored Hour are Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids, The King is Watching, Hold The Mine.
- Who developed The Anchored Hour?
- The Anchored Hour was developed by Hourwisp Studio.
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